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German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781403979339

ISBN: 978-1-349-52963-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 20, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Bos, Pascale R.

Pages: 1 –20

[In 1980, the German-Jewish author Grete Weil published the autobiographical novel Meine Schwester Antigone. Through an innovative rewriting of Sophocles’ Antigone myth, the novel both deals with the protagonist’s wartime experiences under the Nazis (exile in Amsterdam, her husband’s deportation...
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Chapter 2The Jewish Return to Germany

Bos, Pascale R.

Pages: 21 –46

[In 1947, Grete Weil-Dispeker returned to Germany after a twelve-year absence. Having lived in exile in Amsterdam since December 1935 (spending September 1943 to May 1945 in hiding), now 41 years old and a widow, she was eager to return. For as she saw it, the mood in Germany befit her own. After...
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Chapter 3Mythical Interventions

Bos, Pascale R.

Pages: 47 –70

[After leftist terrorist violence escalated in the 1970s, with bombings of police and government targets, and kidnappings and murders of major German public figures, West Germans became ever more divided on the direction of the nation’s political course. As both camps, a conservative...
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Chapter 4Creating Address

Bos, Pascale R.

Pages: 71 –88

[The German reunification of 1990 in many ways seemed to indicate a symbolic break with World War II and its continued political significance for the German state. If the division of Germany had served as a symbol for the aftermath of the Nazis’ unprecedented destructive war and as an indication...
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Chapter 5Belated Interventions

Bos, Pascale R.

Pages: 89 –93

[The Holocaust ended the life of European Jews as it had existed for centuries. Jews were segregated, isolated, hunted down, and murdered in unprecedented fashion. Whereas the Shoah is commonly understood as having led to the physical destruction of the European Jewish community, what has been...

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